Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | So we should expect it to have a stronger influence on public information and perceptions than on public attitudes and choices . |
2 | Many influential people think it holds the key to strategic defence planning , and that we should study it to prevent a third world war . |
3 | I can see it makes a nice pattern , he said . |
4 | Next you have to decide when to enter the date and time information — do you want to use the spreadsheet like a time clock where you record what you are doing at the time you do it or will you use it to maintain a post-hoc record and enter dates and times in batches . |
5 | You can use it to find a particular place in a text if you know a word used there , or as a way of following up a particular theme , metaphor or symbol . |
6 | Engineers can use it to model a wide range of process industry applications ; from complete plant to individual items of equipment . |
7 | One can therefore say that the courts retain the power to read statutes in the light of general principles , the only question being whether the particular court will be able to find or invent a general principle that will enable it to give a sensible effect to the statute . |
8 | It will also enable it to put a common view to the Lord Chancellor about needs for resources and about priorities for some needs . ’ |
9 | Seagate Technology Inc says it has reached a multi-million dollar agreement with Corning Inc which will enable it to produce a hard disk drive that is sturdier and stores more than conventional drives : it will use Corning' glass-ceramic dubbed Memcor and developed over six years of research and development ; shipments of the material , which is thinner , stronger and more rugged than traditional aluminium substrates , and enables the recording head to be placed much closer to the surface of the disk , will begin shortly and output of drives will start in the third quarter . |
10 | I did not intend it to include a mere error of law . |
11 | ‘ It was as much hers as it was Terry 's , I suppose , but the Bank he heisted it from might think it had a prior claim . |
12 | Er if I 'm going to give two weeks after anyway for the Councils , I do n't really think it makes a great deal of difference whether it be Friday er afternoon or Monday afternoon . |
13 | Do you think it needs a hard boot ? |
14 | Do you think it gave a fair picture of what local radio is about ? |
15 | I have never completely resolved my own dilemma , for I do not think it has a simple resolution . |
16 | The question is : can they get it to work a second time ? |
17 | Be bec , the appalling thing is that they 're quite , they 're quite happy to spread this pain on those who are in the least position to burden it and they believe quite rightly and this , this is the I think , that exists between socialism and and and the Conservatism in that sense that whereas erm , you know opinion surveys bear out the fact that people are quite happy , those who can afford it to pay a little bit extra in terms of direct taxation for those service provisions , which are absolutely vital and these surveys have been conducted in public and they have been made quite er er open to the press , er , just before the last election particularly for the health authority and so forth . |
18 | and then you had to go and let it get a new engine ! |